A Jordanian activist wearing a Guy Fawkes mask chants slogans demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, because of new prices hikes on bread, fuel, and clothes, during a protest by Jordanian youth movements in downtown Amman, Jordan. The placard reads in Arabic, 'from all over again, in the name of the nation, bread, freedom, and social justice.' Mohammad Hannon/AP

With the Tigris River beneath him, a member of Iraq's national skydiving national team parachutes over the capital during a training session in Baghdad, Iraq. Hadi Mizban/AP

Four Israeli anti-riot police pause next to four Palestinians outside Jerusalem's old city. Israeli troops clashed with Palestinians during demonstrations in east Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip, marking the 13th anniversary of the second Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation. Bernat Armangue/AP

A South Korean Air Force F-16 fighter jet fires flare shells past the moon during the media day for the 65th anniversary of Armed Forces Day at Seoul military airport in Seongnam, South Korea. South Korean Armed Forces was founded in 1948 and Armed Forces Day is observed on Oct. 1, the day that South Korean forces broke through the 38th parallel in 1950 during the Korean War. Lee Jin-man/AP

Filipino Joseph Manipula with tattoos on his face and neck, gets another tattoo done on his thigh at the opening of a two-day tattoo festival dubbed "Dutdutan 13" at the World Trade Center in suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, in the Philippines. The tattoo festival, now on its 13th year, has attracted hundreds of Filipinos as well as tattoo artists from Asia and the US. Bullit Marquez/AP

Base jumper Kristian Moxnes of Norway leaps from the 300-meter Open Deck of the Malaysia's landmark Kuala Lumpur Tower during the International Tower Jump in Kuala Lumpur. About 103 professional base jumpers from 20 countries took part in the annual event. Vincent Thian/AP

An officer adjusts an honor guard member's hat as others are lined up with a rope before they perform at a welcome ceremony held by Chinese President Xi Jinping for visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Karzai met with Chinese leaders amid security threats in the war-torn nation that have stymied a massive copper mine development by a Chinese consortium. Alexander F. Yuan/AP

Inmates from the women's prison wait before participating in a parade during a week of festivities to celebrate La Virgen de las Mercedes (our lady of mercy) at the Buen Pastor prison in Bogota September 26th. John Vizcaino/Reuters

A farmer dries newly-harvested corn cobs near her field in Zhuliang village of Qingzhou, Shandong province. China, the world's second-largest corn consumer, is likely to rely more on imports and lower its self-sufficiency ratio for the grain to 90 percent by 2020, an executive at the country's top corn trader said. China Daily/Reuters

An unidentified young relative standing on the red carpet watches the proceedings at a ceremony of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta's nephew Mbugua Mwangi and Mwangi's fiancee Rosemary Wahito, who were both killed in the Westgate Mall terrorist attack, in the village of Ichawara, Kenya. Ben Curtis/AP

National lottery sellers (l. & c.) chat on the main shopping and pedestrian street of Istiklal in central Istanbul, Turkey. /Murad Sezer/Reuters

A cow walks on a stretch of Brazil's uncompleted North-South Railroad in Anapolis City September 26. More than a year has passed since Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced an ambitious plan to raise billions of dollars to lay much-needed railroad tracks across this continent-sized nation. Not a single mile has been laid, however. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters

A Hindu devotee offers prayers to the Sun God before ending her day-long fast during Jivitputrika, on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India. Women observe a fast for the longevity and well-being of their children on this day. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Antigovernment protesters holding antigovernment banners and pictures of Bahraini opposition leader Khalil al-Marzouq participate in a rally called by Bahrain's main opposition Al Wefaq in Budaiya, west of Manama. Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters

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Hardline Islamist insurgents, including the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, now control a second Syrian province after Raqqa, the stronghold of the Islamic State group. But ISIS isn't allied with the Islamists who tookover Idlib.

ByMariam Karouny, ReutersMarch 28, 2015

Islamist groups including Al Qaeda's Nusra Front - but not ISIS - have seized the city of Idlib for the first time in Syria's civil war, fighters and a monitoring group said on Saturday.